Max Planck, Norwegian Centre For Taxation & Notre Dame Host Conference On BEPS: Tax Evasion Or Tax Avoidance

The Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, Norwegian Centre for Taxation, and Notre Dame are hosting a conference on From Panama to BEPS: Tax Evasion or Tax Avoidance —International and National Policies to Confront Personal and Corporate Tax Strategies in Bergen, Norway (program):

Session #1:  Shifting Income Between Schedules

• Håkan Selin (Uppsala) & Laurent Simula (ENS Lyon), Income Shifting as Income Creation? The Intensive vs. Extensive Margins
• Jonathan Schindler (Munich), The Interaction Between Money Laundering Law and Tax Law
• Shu-Yi Oei (Boston College) & Diane Ring (Boston College), Leak-Driven Law, 65 UCLA L. Rev. ___ (2018)

Session #2:  Income and Investment Shifting

• Eric Bond (Vanderbilt) & Robert Driskill (Vanderbilt), DBCFT, Border Adjustments, and Trade
• Eric Bond (Vanderbilt) & Thomas Gresik (Notre Dame), Border-Adjusted Taxes and Transfer Pricing
• Andreas Haufler (Munich), Mohammed Mardan (ETH Zürich) & Dirk Schindler (NHH), Double Tax Discrimination to Attract FDI and Fight Profit Shifting: The Role of CFC Rules
• Marko Köthenbürger (ETH Zürich), Federica Liberini (ETH Zürich) & Michael Stimmelmayr (ETH Zürich), Is It Just Luring Reported Profit: The Case of European Patent Boxes 

Session #3:  Tax Avoidance

• Paul Demeré (Illinois), Michael P. Donohoe (Illinois) & Petro Lisowsky (Illinois), The Economic Effects of Special Purpose Entities on Corporate Tax Avoidance
• Kevin Markle (Iowa) & Leslie Robinson (Dartmouth), Negotiated Tax Havens
• Bjørn Erik Roberg Egaas (Norwegian Tax Administration), Guttorm Schjelderup (Head, Norwegian Center for Taxation), Wolfgang Schön (Managing Director, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance) & Oddleif Torvik (Schjødt Law Firm, Bergen), Panel Discussion on the Impact of the OECD BEPS Action Plans
• Evelina Gavrilova-Zoutman (NHH) & Aija Polakova (NHH), As It Is In (Tax) Heaven: Market Attitudes Towards Secrecy Shopping
• Kai Konrad (Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance), Dynamics of the Market For Corporate Tax-Avoidance Advice